bronchopneumonia

noun Pathology.

1. a form of pneumonia centering on bronchial passages.

noun

1. inflammation of the lungs, originating in the bronchioles

n.

1. Acute inflammation of the walls of the smaller bronchial tubes, with irregular areas of consolidation due to spread of the inflammation into the peribronchiolar alveoli and the alveolar ducts of the lungs.bronchial pneumonia